INTERVIEW

※〈Intern〉 — the interview with actor Han So-hee continues from Part 1.One of the most memorable scenes comes late in the film. In the izakaya, Sun-woo opens up to Ki-ho about her situation. Wouldn't it be a burden to expose those feelings in front of such a senior actor—did you feel that pressure?

In 〈The Intern〉, Han So-hee plays Seon-woo, a fast-rising fashion CEO whose drive masks deep uncertainty. The film, which opens on the 16th, is a character drama about a woman who, amid instability, gradually finds her own steadiness.

※The interview with 〈Intern〉 actor Choi Min-sik continues from Part 1. In the film's second half, Gi-ho’s shout of “Snap out of it. ” at a shaken Seon-woo felt like the highlight. How did you approach acting that scene.

After 46 years in the profession, Choi Min-sik brings a lifetime of nuance to the Korean remake of 〈The Intern〉, which opens on the 16th. The lines on his face carry the ease and depth that only a long life can produce.

In her travel memoir 〈The Faraway Nearby〉, Rebecca Solnit writes that she learned by setting out on the road that “the longest journey a traveler makes is the journey within. ” Travel, she says, “changes not only the location of the body, but also the location of memory and imagination.

“If horizontal film is a landscape painting, the vertical frame is a portrait. You can focus more deeply on a character’s inner life, and on set every actor gets a solo shot — it becomes a kind of liberated space for cinema where everyone stands equal.

※〈Gyeongju Trip〉 Director Kim Mi-jo's interview continues from Part 1.One striking aspect of 〈Gyeongju Trip〉 is how it depicts Baek Sang-hyun, the killer (Byun Yo-han). Why did you choose not to give any backstory to the perpetrator Baek Sang-hyun and instead portray him solely as a heinous...

Kim Mi-jo’s 〈Gyeongju Trip〉 is a brisk, chilly revenge drama that announces a director with a singular, hard-to-pin-down voice. Director Kim Mi-jo said that 〈Little Miss Sunshine〉 (2006) and Bong Joon-ho’s 〈The Host〉 (2006) were the biggest influences on 〈Gyeongju Trip〉.

⮕ The interview with 〈Little Dreamers〉 director Lee Kwang-ho and actors Yoo Hee-je and Kim Se-won continues in Part 1. You became the architect of this dream. How did you develop the ideas for building the dream world. Did you have any references.

Geon-woo is an unemployed young man who quit baseball and now stands at a dead end in life. Mina is a teenage girl who wanders after her mother's death, unable to fit into her new surroundings. The two characters illuminated by 〈Little Dreamers〉 are burdened by their own struggles as they try to...